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Adobe Says PCs Are Preferred
Father Of Free Choice writes "Abobe has picked Windows as the preferred platform for running Photoshop, After Effects, and Illustrator. I don't know how many Mac people this will upset, but given the large hold Apple has on design pros and film, this seems like a bad move on Adobe's part."
Is it only me, or isn't ironic that they move now when UNIX (include MacOS X) is gaining ground at all fronts including the desktop users.
Hey, look, no doubt Windows PCs are faster for a lot of "look and feel" things. But as somebody who uses, and is his home's and his small office network admin, there is no comparison.
Windows is a big pain in the @ss when I install, remove or update anything. I figure that Windows "down time" more than makes up for the fact that my Mac has delays when manipulating the GUI, renders PS stuff more slowly and occassionally has a "spinning color wheel" for minutes. Additionally, I have had no catastrophic OS failures with OS X since switching from 9 and I have at least every few months some major problem with Windows that ends up being hours of downtime! Add to that the well-known and well-exploited security issues with Windows and, for me, the choice is clear.
Yet, I would love Apple to put this Megahertz myth to rest by getting away from Motorola (since they seem not to be able to deliver) and move to IBM, or better yet, move to AMD. Still, I think OS X will always come up slower than Windows because (a) I don't think software companies know how to optimize code (or don't want to put the time and money into it) for the Mac and perhaps more significantly, OS X will always be more secure than Windows. And security generally puts a hit on speed. I'm willing to live with that.
-A
maybe my old school can FINALLY get rid of the Macs that no one can support well and have a cost burden on a thin IT dept.